In 2009 Stroom Den Haag kicked off the program Foodprint. Food for the city.
The program takes place over the course of several years and focuses on the
influence food can have on the culture, shape and functioning of the
city, using The Hague as a case study. The program invites artists and designers to develop appealing
proposals on the subject, while at the same time establishing a clear
connection with entrepreneurs, farmers, food experts and the general
public.

Largely hidden from the view of the city dweller, a
worldwide network of food producers and supermarket chains takes care
of our supply of daily food. This is very convenient, but it is also
the cause of many problems. A handful of distributors decides what we
eat. For the most part the people who produce the food are invisible.
There is hardly any knowledge of how our food is actually
produced. The return of food production to the city might help to
increase this awareness and might also create healthy and safe food
within the boundaries of a more sustainable city. With Foodprint Stroom aims to explore the possibilities of The
Hague as a production landscape and to develop utopian, appealing and
feasible proposals.

PROGRAM FOODPRINT 2012(for program 2009-2011 scroll down)

Food Forward15 January - 29 April 2012
Opening: Saturday 14 January 2012Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
The exhibition ‘Food Forward' presents smart solutions and mind blowing ideas on
the future of food. Curator: Karen Verschooren, Z33. >> read moreAs a kick off to the exhibition an Ostrich Dinner Party will be organized on December 22, 2011. >> read more

Food TribunalThursday 5 April 2012, 7-21 pmReception (from 5 pm) with dinner at Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The HagueLocation Tribunal: ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, The HagueInternational event. Experts
from various fields will discuss the topic 'How to feed the cities of
the future?' Follow-up of the successful 2009 Foodprint symposium.

Publication Food for the City. A Future for the MetropolisAvailable from April 5, 2012In 2050 nine billion people will be living on earth, 75 percent of them in cities. If we go on at this rate, we will need several extra planets for the production of our food. This publication examines how we can keep feeding our cities. The chef, the activist, the economist, the artist, the philosopher, the architect and the farmer, among others, offer their view of the future of food for the city.PublicationNils Norman, Eetbaar Park/Edible ParkAvailable from April 2012The British artist Nils Norman created the art project ‘Edible Park' in The Hague to test in practice what the ecological design method of permaculture could mean to a city. In this publication Norman explains how he sets to work, what his sources of inspiration are, and in which artistic and social-critical context his work can be placed.PROGRAM FOODPRINT 2011Tuesday 15 March 2011, 5pmLaunch Carolyn Steel's 'De Hongerige Stad'Location: Hogewal 1-9, The HagueNAi Publishers and InnovatieNetwerk present the Dutch translation of Carolyn Steel's 'Hungry City' (2008), the international bestseller which is an important source of inspiration for the Foodprint program.

'Edible Park' by Nils NormanDate: all year long in 2011The art project 'Edible Park' by Nils Norman will be continued in 2011. The pavilion will be finished and the permaculture garden at the amateur gardener's association Nut & Genoegen will be put in place, including various objects and demonstration zones related to permaculture and sustainability like a worm bin, and the implementation of various techniques for composting and soil remediation.
G'Aarde Gezonde Gronden will organize a series of activities for the local inhabitants and people interested in permaculture. In addition Stroom
Den Haag is preparing a publication dedicated to the Edible Park project.'Foodscape Schilderswijk' by Debra Solomon/UrbaniahoeveDate: all year long in 2011One Year anniversary celebrationsWednesday, June 22 2-11, 1-4 pmContinuation of the art project 'Foodscape Schilderswijk' on four locations in the Schilderswijk in The Hague. Led by artist Debra Solomon and Urbaniahoeve
a number of 'planting days' will be organized. The result: 4 fully functional typologies with
‘edible green' (fruit trees, berries, herbs etc). On June 22 the Foodscape Schildrswijk One Year Young Day' will be held, with guided tours of the four project locations.DAG HAPSeptember 30 to October 16, 2011Opening concert: Friday September 30, 2011The DAG HAP festival focuses on the influence food can have on the shape and functioning of a newly built sustainable city district. Erasmusveld is a development area in the south of The Hague which has the ambition to become ‘The most sustainable city district in The Netherlands'. Participating artists include: Refunc, Sjim Hendrix, Henriette Waal, Atelier Gras, Olivier Darnié, Fritz Haeg, Studio Makkink & Bey, Annechien Meier.

'Park Supermarkt' by Van Bergen Kolpa ArchitectenDate: fall 2011Continuation of the Foodprint project 'Park Supermarkt' by Van Bergen Kolpa Architecten in collaboration with
Vincent Kuypers (Alterra Wageningen). A model for a ‘landscape supermarket', visualizing the future of the edibility of city parks in Midden-Delfland.

Friday 22 October 2010Symposium Edible Parkfollowed at 5.30 pm by the opening of the Edible Park Pavilion by councillor Rabin BaldewsinghLocation symposium: Amateurtuindersvereniging Nut en Genoegen, Meppelweg 882, Escamp, The HagueLocation opening: Zuiderpark, at Stadsboerderij De Herweijerhoeve, The HagueEdible Park is a project of the artist Nils Norman.Saturday 23 October 2010, 10 am-4 pmPractical workshop for the general public as part of Edible ParkLocations: Pavilion Edible Park, Zuiderpark, at Stadsboerderij De Herweijerhoeve, The Hagueand Amateurtuindersvereniging Nut en Genoegen, Meppelweg 882, Escamp, The HagueEdible Park is a project of the artist Nils Norman.Sunday 31 October 2010, 3 pmGuided tour of the exhibition Foodprint: Raul Ortega Ayala 'Living Remains'Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
By Annechien Meier, followed by premiere of film 'Borders in our Mind'.More information in Dutch only.Tuesday 2 November 2010‘Eten als einde'Location: a cemetery in The HagueEvent on the occasion of All Saints Day and the exhibition Foodprint: Raul
Ortega Ayala 'Living Remains'. Inspired by the Dia de los Muertos, a holiday celebrated in Mexico when family and friends gather to pray for and remember friends and releatives who have died.More information in Dutch only.

The followoing event originally planned for 4 November 2010 has been postponed‘Kansen voor Den Haag'Workshops organized by InnovatieNetwerk in concurrence with the research paper 'Voedsel voor de stad. Een veldonderzoek'More information will follow.

FOODPRINT PROGRAM 2009

Foodprint: Introduction
Wednesday March 25, 2009, 8.30 pmLecture Carolyn Steel over 'Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives'.More information click here.Foodprint: Symposium. Friday June 26, 2009 (9 am-5.45 pmA
varied program focusing on the important role food can play in the
design of a sustainable, healthy and green city, looking at this topic
from various angles and disciplines. Organisation: Het Portaal and Stroom Den Haag.For more information click hereFoodprint: ExhibitionSaturday June 27 thru Sunday August 23, 2009Curator
Marieke Berkers shows crucial moments relating to food, food production
and the city through the work of artists and designers. For more information click hereFoodprint: Art Projects for the cityIn
order to show the current, local relationship between food and the city
of The Hague, a number of artists have been commissioned to create new
work for Foodprint.For more information click hereFoodprint: Design assignmentsSpecial
assignments in and around the city, which look at the topic from the
point of view of food and the growing of food, offer innovative chances
for a user-friendly and attractive green environment.For more information click here

Foodprint: Extra ActivititiesDuring
the Foodprint program the theme will be developed through a number of
extra activities, like lectures, travels and film screenings.Acknowledgments:Foodprint is an initiative of Stroom Den Haag and is also made possible by the City of The Hague on the occasion of Groenjaar 2009
and Fonds Burgerschap, Mondriaan Stichting, Stimuleringsfonds voor
Architectuur, Fonds 1818, Stichting Doen, Casema Cultuur Fonds Den
Haag, SNS Reaal Fonds,Cultuurfonds BNG, LTO
- Vakgroep Varkenshouderij, TU Delft, Innovatienetwerk, Provincie
Zuid-Holland, Productschap Tuinbouw, Design Den Haag, Staedion and
Vestia.